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		<h1>5. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman</h1>
<p>
When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining 
through the trees and Toto had long 
been out chasing birds around him and 
squirrels. She sat up and looked 
around her. Scarecrow, still standing 
patiently in his corner, waiting for 
her.
</p><p>
<span class="diag4">"We must go and 
search for water,"</span> she said to 
him.
</p><p>
<span class="diag9">"Why do you want 
water?"</span> he asked.
</p><p>
<span class="diag4">"To wash my face 
clean after the dust of the road, and 
to drink, so the dry bread will not 
stick in my throat."</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag9">"It must be 
inconvenient to be made of flesh,"</span> said the Scarecrow 
thoughtfully, <span class="diag9">"for 
you must sleep, and eat and drink. 
However, you have brains, and it is 
worth a lot of bother to be able to 
think properly."</span>
</p><p>
They left the cottage and walked 
through the trees until they found a 
little spring of clear water, where 
Dorothy drank and bathed and ate her 
breakfast. She saw there was not much 
bread left in the basket, and the girl 
was thankful the Scarecrow did not 
have to eat anything, for there was 
scarcely enough for herself and Toto 
for the day.
</p><p>
When she had finished her meal, and 
was about to go back to the road of 
yellow brick, she was startled to hear 
a deep groan near by.
</p><p>
<span class="diag4">"What was 
that?"</span> she asked timidly.
</p><p>
<span class="diag9">"I cannot imagine,"</span> replied the 
Scarecrow; <span class="diag9">"but we 
can go and see."</span>
</p><p>
Just then another groan reached their 
ears, and the sound seemed to come 
from behind them. They turned and 
walked through the forest a few steps, 
when Dorothy discovered something 
shining in a ray of sunshine that fell 
between the trees. She ran to the 
place and then stopped short, with a 
little cry of surprise.
</p><p>
One of the big trees had been partly 
chopped through, and standing beside 
it, with an uplifted axe in his hands, 
was a man made entirely of tin. His 
head and arms and legs were jointed 
upon his body, but he stood perfectly 
motionless, as if he could not stir at 
all.
</p><p>
Dorothy looked at him in amazement, 
and so did the Scarecrow, while Toto 
barked sharply and made a snap at the 
tin legs, which hurt his teeth.
</p><p>
<span class="diag4">"Did you 
groan?"</span> asked Dorothy.
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"Yes,"</span> answered 
the tin man, <span class="diag10">"I 
did. I've been groaning for more than 
a year, and no one has ever heard me 
before or come to help me."</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag4">"What can I do for 
you?"</span> she inquired softly, for 
she was moved by the sad voice in 
which the man spoke.
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"Get an oil-can and oil my 
joints,"</span> he answered. <span class="diag10">"They 
are rusted so badly that I cannot 
move them at all; if I am well oiled 
I shall soon be all right again. You 
will find an oil-can on a shelf in my 
cottage."</span>
</p><p>
Dorothy at once ran back to the 
cottage and found the oil-can, and 
then she returned and asked 
anxiously,<span class="diag4"> "Where 
are your joints?"</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"Oil my neck, 
first,"</span> replied the Tin 
Woodman. So she oiled it, and as it 
was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow 
took hold of the tin head and moved 
it gently from side to side until it 
worked freely, and then the man could 
turn it himself.
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"Now oil the 
joints in my arms,"</span> he said. And 
Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow 
bent them carefully until they were 
quite free from rust and as good as 
new.
</p><p>
The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of 
satisfaction and lowered his axe, 
which he leaned against the tree.
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"This is a great 
comfort,"</span> he said. <span class="diag10">"I 
have been holding that axe in the air 
ever since I rusted, and I'm glad to 
be able to put it down at last. Now, 
if you will oil the joints of my 
legs, I shall be all right once more."</span>
</p><p>
So they oiled his legs until he could 
move them freely; and he thanked them 
again and again for his release, for 
he seemed a very polite creature, and 
very grateful.
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"I might have 
stood there always if you had not come 
along,"</span> he said; <span class="diag10">"so 
you have certainly saved my life. How 
did you happen to be here?"</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag4">"We are on our way 
to the Emerald City to see the Great 
Oz,"</span> she 
answered,<span class="diag4"> "and we 
stopped at your cottage to pass the 
night."</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"Why do you wish 
to see Oz?"</span> he asked.
</p><p>
<span class="diag4">"I want him to 
send me back to Kansas, and the 
Scarecrow wants him to put a few 
brains into his head,"</span> she 
replied.
</p><p>
The Tin Woodman appeared to think 
deeply for a moment. Then he said:
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"Do you suppose Oz 
could give me a heart?"</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag4">"Why, I guess so,"</span> 
Dorothy answered.<span class="diag4"> "It 
would be as easy as to give the 
Scarecrow brains."</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"True,"</span> the Tin Woodman 
returned. <span class="diag10">"So, if 
you will allow me to join your party, 
I will also go to the Emerald City and 
ask Oz to help me."</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag9">"Come along,"</span> said 
the Scarecrow heartily, and Dorothy 
added that she would be pleased to 
have his company. So the Tin Woodman 
shouldered his axe and they all passed 
through the forest until they came to 
the road that was paved with yellow 
brick.
</p><p>
The Tin Woodman had asked Dorothy to 
put the oil-can in her basket. <span class="diag10">"For,"</span> he 
said, <span class="diag10">"if I 
should get caught in the rain, and 
rust again, I would need the oil-can 
badly."</span>
</p><p>
It was a bit of good luck to have 
their new comrade join the party, for 
soon after they had begun their 
journey again they came to a place 
where the trees and branches grew so 
thick over the road that the travelers 
could not pass. But the Tin Woodman 
set to work with his axe and chopped 
so well that soon he cleared a passage 
for the entire party.
</p><p>
Dorothy was thinking so earnestly as 
they walked along that she did not 
notice when the Scarecrow stumbled 
into a hole and rolled over to the 
side of the road. Indeed he was 
obliged to call to her to help him up 
again.
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"Why didn't you walk around 
the hole?"</span> asked the Tin 
Woodman.
</p><p>
<span class="diag9">"I don't know 
enough,"</span> replied the Scarecrow 
cheerfully. <span class="diag9">"My 
head is stuffed with straw, you know, 
and that is why I am going to Oz to 
ask him for some brains."</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"Oh, I see,"</span> said the Tin 
Woodman. <span class="diag10">"But, 
after all, brains are not the best 
things in the world."</span>
</p><p>
<span class="diag9">"Have you any?"</span> inquired the Scarecrow.
</p><p>
<span class="diag10">"No, my head is 
quite empty,"</span> answered the 
Woodman. <span class="diag10">"But 
once I had brains, and a heart also; 
so, having tried them both, I should 
much rather have a heart."</span>
</p><p>
"And why is that?" asked the Scarecrow.
</p><p>
"I will tell you my story, and then you will know."
</p><p>
So, while they were walking through the forest, the Tin Woodman told the following story:
</p><p>
"I was born the son of a woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold the wood for a living. When I grew up, I too became a woodchopper, and after my father died I took care of my old mother as long as she lived. Then I made up my mind that instead of living alone I would marry, so that I might not become lonely.
</p><p>
"There was one of the Munchkin girls who was so beautiful that I soon grew to love her with all my heart. She, on her part, promised to marry me as soon as I could earn enough money to build a better house for her; so I set to work harder than ever. But the girl lived with an old woman who did not want her to marry anyone, for she was so lazy she wished the girl to remain with her and do the cooking and the housework. So the old woman went to the Wicked Witch of the East, and promised her two sheep and a cow if she would prevent the marriage. Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
</p><p>
"This at first seemed a great misfortune, for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a wood-chopper. So I went to a tinsmith and had him make me a new leg out of tin. The leg worked very well, once I was used to it. But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl. When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg. Again I went to the tinsmith, and again he made me a leg out of tin. After this the enchanted axe cut off my arms, one after the other; but, nothing daunted, I had them replaced with tin ones. The Wicked Witch then made the axe slip and cut off my head, and at first I thought that was the end of me. But the tinsmith happened to come along, and he made me a new head out of tin.
</p><p>
"I thought I had beaten the Wicked Witch then, and I worked harder than ever; but I little knew how cruel my enemy could be. She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves. Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever. But, alas! I had now no heart, so that I lost all my love for the Munchkin girl, and did not care whether I married her or not. I suppose she is still living with the old woman, waiting for me to come after her.
</p><p>
"My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very proud of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me. There was only one danger--that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it. However, there came a day when I forgot to do this, and, being caught in a rainstorm, before I thought of the danger my joints had rusted, and I was left to stand in the woods until you came to help me. It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. If he does, I will go back to the Munchkin maiden and marry her."
</p><p>
Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knew why he was so anxious to get a new heart.
</p><p>
"All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."
</p><p>
"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
</p><p>
Dorothy did not say anything, for she was puzzled to know which of her two friends was right, and she decided if she could only get back to Kansas and Aunt Em, it did not matter so much whether the Woodman had no brains and the Scarecrow no heart, or each got what he wanted.
</p><p>
What worried her most was that the bread was nearly gone, and another meal for herself and Toto would empty the basket. To be sure neither the Woodman nor the Scarecrow ever ate anything, but she was not made of tin nor straw, and could not live unless she was fed.
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